Lady Alice Rutherford Clayton
Wife of John Clayton and the biological mother of the King of the Jungle, Tarzan.
Billings
Ill-fated captain of the ship Fuwalda. Destined to be murdered by mutineers.
Black Michael
Leader of the mutineers, he murders Billings and leaves the Claytons marooned and assumed dead.
Robert Canler
Extender of credit to Jane Porter’s father, mainly for the purpose of pressing his unwanted romantic attention upon the man’s lovely daughter.
John Clayton
As Lord Greystoke, Clayton is sent to Africa as a colonial emissary from Great Britain. He find himself at the center of mutinous uprising against the captain of the ship and is marooned with his wife Lady Alice on the coat of the Dark Continent. Together they manage to live for a year in the wild and only perish shortly after the birth of their son.
William Cecil Clayton
Another suitor setting eyes upon the lovely Jane Porter. Complications result from his also being the cousin of Tarzan.
Jane Porter
A mere commodity to be owned, taken or desired. At least that is how it appears; for the most Jane is an object who is the symbolic incarnation of her gender relative to Victorian ideals. Everybody wants her, but only Tarzan seems willing to sacrifice anything for her. When he gives up his knife—the weapon which literally separates him from the other animals in the jungle—it a symbolic transference of phallic power, thus situating Tarzan as even more a Victorian gentlemen than the others who have their eye on Jane.
Kala
Ape that essentially becomes Tarzan’s foster mother.
Archimedes Q. Porter
A professor who calls Baltimore home. He also sired Jane Porter.
Kerchak
King of the Apes when Tarzan was still a baby foundling.
Terkoz
Intent on experimenting in cross-species reproduction with Jane Porter, this King of the Apes is subverted by the intervention of Tarzan. Following their battle, Terkoz is sent into exile and Tarzan becomes dominant.
Tarzan
Rightful heir to the Greystoke peerage, he is an orphaned foundling who is raised to become of the King of the Apes by the apes. Things take a significant change when another mutiny at sea brings the lovely Jane Porter into the jungle.
